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Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

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On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

Look at the source and find out?
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/sys/block
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On 10/4/25 04:22, Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

/sys/block

Thank you - straight-up quick answer.

/sys/block/<whatever> IS a bit messy to navigate/parse
alas.

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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

The problem was already solved. So all I can add is that strace would
have been helpful here.

Greetings
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On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.
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On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting shittier?

Google, for example, might just provide a screenful of links to
ad-ridden content scrappers, and may "helpfully" include other spellings
of words making the search less specific (I think someone even got it to include "extinct" when searching for "extant" or vice-versa). Not to
mention all the time such search engines seem to think a web search must include videos and images.
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On 2025-10-11, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting shittier?

Google, for example, might just provide a screenful of links to
ad-ridden content scrappers, and may "helpfully" include other spellings
of words making the search less specific (I think someone even got it to include "extinct" when searching for "extant" or vice-versa). Not to
mention all the time such search engines seem to think a web search must include videos and images.

In a recent podcast, Cory Doctorow stated that Google is making their
searches less useful in order to make people work harder to find stuff.
They're being paid by the mouse click, so the more clicks the better
(for them). It's part of what he calls the "enshittification" of the
Internet.
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On 2025-10-12 02:28, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-10-11, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting
shittier?

Google, for example, might just provide a screenful of links to
ad-ridden content scrappers, and may "helpfully" include other spellings
of words making the search less specific (I think someone even got it to
include "extinct" when searching for "extant" or vice-versa). Not to
mention all the time such search engines seem to think a web search must
include videos and images.

In a recent podcast, Cory Doctorow stated that Google is making their searches less useful in order to make people work harder to find stuff. They're being paid by the mouse click, so the more clicks the better
(for them). It's part of what he calls the "enshittification" of the Internet.

Not going to happen. People are learning to ask an AI instead. In fact,
many google searches have an answer by the google AI, which often gets
results wrong, and you can not chat with it to refine the results.

Search engines like google are losing hits to the AIs. They are worried.
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:46:33 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-10-12 02:28, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

In a recent podcast, Cory Doctorow stated that Google is making their
searches less useful in order to make people work harder to find stuff.
They're being paid by the mouse click, so the more clicks the better
(for them). It's part of what he calls the "enshittification" of the
Internet.

Not going to happen. People are learning to ask an AI instead.

AI services cost money (i.e. electricity bills) to provide. So donrCOt
expect that to be a low/no-cost alternative -- certainly not for long.
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On 10/11/25 09:09, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Well, I did ... and got a good clear prompt answer.

What's YOUR attitude problem ?

BTW there's no good response when searching
for "Where does lsblk get its information".
Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
page ......

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On 10/11/25 18:39, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting shittier?

Gotta get past the damned ads first ...

Then the clearly 'sponsored' links ...

Now they all offer "AI" to schmooze you
even better and probably build up a big
search dossier that will be used against
you by somebody eventually.

Google, for example, might just provide a screenful of links to
ad-ridden content scrappers, and may "helpfully" include other spellings
of words making the search less specific (I think someone even got it to include "extinct" when searching for "extant" or vice-versa). Not to
mention all the time such search engines seem to think a web search must include videos and images.

Went through a lot of 'duck' pages, but did not
see any straight-up stuff on where lsblk got
all its info. Mostly just endless examples of
the man page.

DID get immediate, straight accurate, info in
this forum however.

Alas, still a lot of messy parsing of the
dir contents ... would probably use Python
rather than 'C' - slice dice and splice
are easy with Python.

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c186282 wrote:

-a BTW there's no good response when searching
-a for "Where does lsblk get its information".
-a Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
-a page ......

The man pages *do* know the answer ...

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>
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On 2025-10-12, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 10/11/25 18:39, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting
shittier?

Gotta get past the damned ads first ...

Ads, what ads? Ublockorigin seems to do a good job, the few times I
resort to using google, or youtube.

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Le 12-10-2025, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> a |-crit-a:

On 2025-10-12 02:28, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

In a recent podcast, Cory Doctorow stated that Google is making their
searches less useful in order to make people work harder to find stuff.
They're being paid by the mouse click, so the more clicks the better
(for them). It's part of what he calls the "enshittification" of the
Internet.

Not going to happen. People are learning to ask an AI instead. In fact,
many google searches have an answer by the google AI, which often gets results wrong, and you can not chat with it to refine the results.

Search engines like google are losing hits to the AIs. They are worried.

The AI can't replace search engines for everything. There is a limit to
that. For example, 25% of Internet bandwidth is done for porn. And AI
can't help. So, they'll never been able to win more than 75% of search
engines marketplaces.

<https://ibb.co/kVfK0jL7>

OK, there are ways to circumvent that, but it's far more difficult for knowledge guys to use search engines for that than to circumvent the
AI. And for the street guy, there is no way around.
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On 11/10/2025 14:09, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Pretty hard when your linux is in console mode and you haven't actually
got a GUI.
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On 12/10/2025 11:28, Jim Jackson wrote:

On 2025-10-12, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 10/11/25 18:39, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep getting
shittier?

Gotta get past the damned ads first ...

Ads, what ads? Ublockorigin seems to do a good job, the few times I
resort to using google, or youtube.

I have to say that I have been using adblockers since forever and I
never ever see most ads.
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:20:28 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 12/10/2025 11:28, Jim Jackson wrote:

On 2025-10-12, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 10/11/25 18:39, Nuno Silva wrote:

On 2025-10-11, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but you need
'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of
just using a search engine.

Especially in this age where at least some search engines keep
getting shittier?

Gotta get past the damned ads first ...

Ads, what ads? Ublockorigin seems to do a good job, the few times I
resort to using google, or youtube.

I have to say that I have been using adblockers since forever and I
never ever see most ads.

I use the Brave browser that has much of that built in. There is one
annoyance that I need to find a fix for. Click on a link '34 Gerbils Go
Wild in Valdosta' and you're brought to a news site with a text story.
However above the text there is a video with some blow-dried moron
babbling on. Kill that, scroll down, and a thumbnail popup of the same
idiot appears with the same content.

lynx gets rid of the video fluff but there doesn't seem to be a 'shove
your cookies up your ass' option.

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:19:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 11/10/2025 14:09, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but you need 'lsblk'
to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Pretty hard when your linux is in console mode and you haven't actually
got a GUI.

lynx duckduckgo.com

That brings you to DuckDuckGo Lite where you can enter the search and
navigate the links with the arrow keys.
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On 10/11/25 09:09, apapmurray wrote:

On 04/10/2025 07:18, c186282 wrote:

Easy enough to find what's mounted at the moment, but
you need 'lsblk' to find what CAN possibly be mounted.

Where/how does 'lsblk' get its info ???

I can't imagine asking a question like this on Usenet instead of just
using a search engine.

Ah ... that's because you are a Total Dick !

GOT my answer quick and clean early on.
Thanks to that poster.

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On 10/12/25 03:25, Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

-a-a BTW there's no good response when searching
-a-a for "Where does lsblk get its information".
-a-a Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
-a-a page ......

The man pages *do* know the answer ...

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

Um ... no ... actually.

They tell you how to USE lsblk, but not
where/how it gets its info.

A day after I posted my question some very
useful/practical guy made it clear. Alas
lots of parsing required.

IMHO ... modern Linux SHOULD keep a much
more processed/accessible file for this
kind of stuff. People NEED it, so why
should it be so complicated ???

Yea, yea ... I can, mostly have, built a
Python script to parse/find/consolidate
the required info. But it shouldn't be
that hard.


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c186282 wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

-a-a BTW there's no good response when searching
-a-a for "Where does lsblk get its information".
-a-a Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
-a-a page ......

The man pages *do* know the answer ...

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

-a Um ... no ... actually.

Did you read the link? Did you notice the highlighted fragment?

-a They tell you how to USE lsblk, but not
-a where/how it gets its info.

"The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem and udev db to gather information. If the udev db is not available or lsblk is compiled
without udev support, then it tries to read LABELs, UUIDs and filesystem
types from the block device."

Is that not your answer?

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On 10/13/25 03:33, Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

-a-a BTW there's no good response when searching
-a-a for "Where does lsblk get its information".
-a-a Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
-a-a page ......

The man pages *do* know the answer ...

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/
lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

-a-a Um ... no ... actually.

Did you read the link?-a Did you notice the highlighted fragment?

Not NEARLY detailed enough.

Man pages are mostly for how to use
the particular app - NOT how they
work in fine detail.

From info I got, here, I now can see
where it gets its info - lots of
parsing required.

However for MY future apps I can likely
just use a LITTLE of that. EZ.

-a-a They tell you how to USE lsblk, but not
-a-a where/how it gets its info.

"The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem and udev db to gather information. If the udev db is not available or lsblk is compiled
without udev support, then it tries to read LABELs, UUIDs and filesystem types from the block device."

Is that not your answer?

Ummm ... not mine. I was only asking
a question.

I do have my answer now - thanks to a
straight-practical poster not keen on
being superior/insulting.

Maybe, a decade ago, I'd have "just known",
but lots of water under the bridge now.
TOO much to try and remember.


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On 10/13/25 03:33, Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

-a-a BTW there's no good response when searching
-a-a for "Where does lsblk get its information".
-a-a Basically you just get 50 copies of the man
-a-a page ......

The man pages *do* know the answer ...

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/
lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

-a-a Um ... no ... actually.

Did you read the link?-a Did you notice the highlighted fragment?

-a-a They tell you how to USE lsblk, but not
-a-a where/how it gets its info.

"The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem and udev db to gather information. If the udev db is not available or lsblk is compiled
without udev support, then it tries to read LABELs, UUIDs and filesystem types from the block device."

Is that not your answer?

NO ... not nearly good enough for practical use.

Exactly WHAT system files for WHAT kinds of
info ... that was what I need.

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c186282 wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

"The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem and udev db to gather
information. If the udev db is not available or lsblk is compiled
without udev support, then it tries to read LABELs, UUIDs and
filesystem types from the block device."

Is that not your answer?

-a NO ... not nearly good enough for practical use.

-a Exactly WHAT system files for WHAT kinds of
-a info ... that was what I need.

In which case TNP gave you the best answer, and you should have known
that before you ever asked ...


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On 2025-10-13 09:33, Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/
lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

-a-a Um ... no ... actually.

Did you read the link?-a Did you notice the highlighted fragment?

How did you highlight a section?
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Carlos E.R. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

How did you highlight a section?

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments>

in this case using two matches for the start and end of the section

#:~:text=StartMatch,EndMatch
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On 13/10/2025 09:38, Andy Burns wrote:

c186282 wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

"The lsblk command reads the sysfs filesystem and udev db to gather
information. If the udev db is not available or lsblk is compiled
without udev support, then it tries to read LABELs, UUIDs and
filesystem types from the block device."

Is that not your answer?

-a-a NO ... not nearly good enough for practical use.

-a-a Exactly WHAT system files for WHAT kinds of
-a-a info ... that was what I need.

In which case TNP gave you the best answer, and you should have known
that before you ever asked ...

Don't remember doing that...
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On 2025-10-13 10:56, Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/
lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

How did you highlight a section?

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/ Text_fragments>

in this case using two matches for the start and end of the section

#:~:text=StartMatch,EndMatch

Oh, so then, manually.
I thought there would be a cute click and point way.

I didn't know it was possible to do that.
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On 13/10/2025 10:45, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-10-13 10:56, Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

<https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/
lsblk.8.html#:~:text=The%20lsblk%20command%20reads%20the,types%20from%20the%20block%20device.>

How did you highlight a section?

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/
Text_fragments>

in this case using two matches for the start and end of the section

#:~:text=StartMatch,EndMatch

Oh, so then, manually.
I thought there would be a cute click and point way.

I didn't know it was possible to do that.

Apparently this is a feature called Scroll To Text Fragment. It has been supported in all major browsers since 2024 (Baseline 2024).

So fairly new
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"Carlos E.R." wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

#:~:text=StartMatch,EndMatch

Oh, so then, manually.
I thought there would be a cute click and point way.

I think Chrome may do that for you somehow, but firefox doesn't.

I didn't know it was possible to do that.

It took a long time to become available on all major browsers, been
available for nearly a year now ...

<https://caniuse.com/url-scroll-to-text-fragment>
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Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

I thought there would be a cute click and point way.

I think Chrome may do that for you somehow, but firefox doesn't.

In Chrome or Edge, select the required text, right click
then "copy link to highlight"
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On 2025-10-13 12:45, Andy Burns wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Carlos E.R. wrote:

I thought there would be a cute click and point way.

I think Chrome may do that for you somehow, but firefox doesn't.

In Chrome or Edge, select the required text, right click
then "copy link to highlight"

Ok, I can fire up Chrome when I need to do it.
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:32:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Apparently this is a feature called Scroll To Text Fragment. It has been supported in all major browsers since 2024 (Baseline 2024).

Details at MDN, as usual: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments>.

Note the options to include prefix and suffix parts to be matched, but
not highlighted.
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:21:52 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence DrCOOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Apparently this is a feature called Scroll To Text Fragment. It has
been supported in all major browsers since 2024 (Baseline 2024).

Details at MDN, as usual: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Reference/Fragment/Text_fragments>.

Note the options to include prefix and suffix parts to be matched, but
not highlighted.

So *that's* what that is. Seen links in that format in a buncha blogo-
sphere stuff of late; seemed self-evident, but I'd never encountered it
'til recently.
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